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24 July 2014

The Big 30

It's my birthday, ya'll and I'm ALLLLL about the number 30 today.

Speaking of the number 30, did you know that Into the Woods has 30 different prints? I guess it's a sign I'd better give some away...how about a fat eighth bundle and a handful of my patterns. Sound good?

Because Into the Woods was inspired by my favorite bedtime stories, you can enter to win by leaving a comment telling me what your favorite bedtime story is. I'll pick one comment at random first thing Monday morning (7/28/14).***Contest now closed***

Because of the number 30, I am also offering a 30% discountin my shop off anything using PIONEERBABY as the promo code--good through the rest of July. And what the heck, if you buy 3 patterns or more, I'll sweeten the deal by throwing in a mini charm pack (while supplies last, no promo code needed).

The last decade of my life was pretty cool, and I'm definitely looking forward to what's up ahead. Oh and Happy Pioneer day!

My favorite stories were my mom's made up ones. Had a couple good ones. But especially loved one that included all my siblings (8 of us). We rode farm animals such as pigs. Great memories. pfh04@msn.com

Happy birthday! I turned thirty earlier this year and it's proving to be rather fabulous! I love "Love is you & me" by Monica Shehan. I feel like I can never tell my kiddos enough how much I love them.

Happy birthday! It's a great day to have a birthday, it's one of my nephews birthdays too. My favorite bedtime story was any story my dad told. He was a great storyteller and always make them super fun

Happy Birthday Vanessa!! You are entering your 30's and I'm about to leave mine ;-) My favorite bedtime story when I was little was Where the Wild Things Are and my guy especially loved anything Dr. Seuss. Hope you have a great day!

Happy Birthday! Growing up my mom read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books to me. I've continued the tradition by reading the Harry Potter series to my daughters. Not the standard bed times stories but they make my girls so happy and that makes me happy.

Hopefully I didn't post this twice (silly phone), but my favorite bedtimestory was a collection of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and little stories in a vintage book that we had. I have no idea what the title of the book is :)

Favorite book I used to read to my boys was Goodnight Moon :) Ps...looks like everyone is not wanting to take the chance of being blog post #29....looks like it will be me :) I hope your 30th year is one of your favorites so far! :)

One Minute Bedtime Bunny Tales were my favorite when I was really little. My brother and I usually tried to negotiate for "one more" and since they were so short, my parents often caved. My dad kept reading to me at bedtime until I was in 7th grade (I think to make sure that "lights out" was honored and books were out of reach). In the later years Dealing with Dragons and Harry Potter were the top choices.

As an avid reader, starting the minute I could read by myself, my favorite series was The Paddington Bear series! I couldn't get enough of them! Thanks for the chance to win some of your beautiful fabrics. I'm on a forced fabric diet right now so a win would be such a special treat! Thanks again!

Right now, my daughter is way into The Sandman by William Joyce, and it has yet to get old. It's a pretty perfect bedtime story. And I will never turn down a request for a Nancy Tillman bedtime story - On the NIght You Were Born and I Would Know You Anywhere are in heavy rotation here. :-)

My favorite bedtime story... that one is rough. I pretty much loved everything that my mom read me. She is a great reader. My brother and I (now in our late 20s) both still remember the "A Story a Day Till Christmas" book (it is highly possible that we still read it when we are at home. lol). But perhaps my favorite is from when I was 13 and in the hospital. My vision was blurry and I could not read for myself. So my mom brought a book by that a friend of her's said was wonderful. We had never heard of it before... It was The Sorcerer's Stone - My mother read me the first Harry Potter book. She introduced me to a fabulous place for my imagination that I still love today. Bedtime stories are all about imagination and letting it fly!. Thanks so much for the chance.

I am more than twice your age so I would say my favorite story I read to my children was a story called "Jimmy and the Jam Jars" from Uncle Arthurs Bedtime Stories by Arthur Maxwell. I read this to my children over and over: Jimmy's Mom had just made a whole batch of Strawberry Jam and told Jimmy to continue to play with his cars while she went to visit a neighbor. She told him not to go into the kitchen. After a little while he became bored and started walking around the house and into the kitchen. He saw all those wonderful jars of jam up on the shelf, a side board in those days, and thought Mom wouldn't mind him trying just one jar. As he climbed up on the first cabinet he didn't realize the second cabinet was not attached to the lower one. He went to get a jar, holding onto the cabinet for support, and down came the cabinet, all the jars, and Jimmy too. Mom was just coming to the house and heard the loud crash, running into the kitchen to see Jimmy surrounded by jam. "Oh my Jimmy, she said, are you hurt?" After checking and cleaning him she found not one scratch, but her tone changed and she scolded him for not obeying her. Jimmy remembered that for a long time.

I love this new line and even if I do not win, I will be buying this bundle. Happy Birthday to you, Lella and many, many, more. jlblvn@gmail.com

Happy Birthday Vanessa!! Yay! So much fun. Well I loved seeing your prints at market and just for a lucky day for myself I would love to win a sweet little package :) My favorite bedtime story would probably be a poem actually it is the giving tree. I loved it the first time I read it and I loved it the first time I read it to my kids because it brought tears to my little girls eyes. Anyway, it is sweet. Thank you for the giveaway. What a fun thing for your birthday! I hope you have had the best day ;)

Happy 30th!!! Hope you are having a great birthday week. I loved a book called It's a Horse of Course when I was a kid. Thanks for the fun giveaway. I would love to win some Into the Woods for my birthday in a few weeks.

Where the Sidewalk Ends was always a favorite. We also did the Grimm fairy tales, Aesop's fables and sometimes dad would just make things up. Have a happy birthday with many more to come. Thanks! Notwendy gmail

Into the Woods is now stuck in my head! My favorite was a Little Golden Book called, "Mr Bell's Fixit Shop". I think it played to my crafting interests, because each page had images of glues, ribbons, etc etc!

Happy Birthday, and have great new decade! We have squirrels that live in the rafters of our porch, and my granddaughter and I make up bedtime stories about the lives of the squirrels. This time with her makes these my favorite bedtime stories. Thanks for your generous birthday celebration!

I'm to old to remember if my mom read to us or not!!! I love to read to my grandkids. They always liked the book Grandfather Buffalo. He is like what I tell my hubby you may be old and slow but you are still part of the herd:)

I tried to post this once but it came back as error! Happy Birthday, I hope there was cake involved. When I was young we did not have bedtime stories but I loved reading to my children and some of our favourites are Guess How Much I Love You, The Tiger Who Came To Tea,and Owl Babies. Thanks for a lovely giveaway. x

I always loved the Beatrix Potter stories---Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, etc. We read a lot in our home so there is a huge variety of books read at bedtime. Thanks for the chance to win the bundle--Love it!

Good night moon. My parents bought me one about a man who thought that there was too much noise (to try and teach me to put up with my sibling's noise!), but good night moon wins (and it has the "hush" in it!)

Happy birthday Vanessa!! My favorite stories growing up were ones my dad made up, we called them "Henry stories" because the were all about a boy named Henry and his family. But now that I'm a mom, I'm terrible at just making up stories (my husband is great) so I love reading to them - chronicles of narnia (for older kids) or anything from the golly sisters to mr putter and tabby (for the little ones).

My most found bedtime story is, Winnie the Pooh. I can still feel the cozy fire on my back and the soft quilt my great grandma made around my feet. My mom would read Until all six of us kids were asleep and it was always the classic Winnie the Pooh tales. Just thinking about it makes me smile because I can hear her voice saying, "oh bother!" and all of us kids laughing until our sides hurt!!

I don't think my other one posted. But no matter what story we were told it started with "once there was a giraff, and that was half. Put it in a stall and that was all." Of course that was no real story so we had to pull one out of dad haha

My favorite was one about a family of mice and a magic chair. They'd sit in it and make a wish, reach into te seat cushion and pulled out what they wished for instead of lint. I can't remember what it was called.

Happy belated birthday! I hope you had a great birthday! I was really sad to be in my 30s but now that I'm almost half way through I'd have to say it's already been better than my 20s! My favorite bedtime stories were the ones my grandma told me. I know retell them to my boys.

My favorite is probably Berenstein Bears also. Very happy birthday to you! I celebrated by getting three of your patterns that I've been coveting and I'm so excited! Starstruck is my very favorite quilt in all the work, particularly the baby Scrumptious one you made.

I have always loved "Pünkelchen". That is a little man, just a few inch tall, that lives in a mousehole and at night does surprises for the children who live in that house. Too cute. Like your fabric. Love this line. :-)